DRIVERS had a miracle escape yesterday after a truck smash sent a bridge crashing down onto a busy motorway.
One biker who saw the carnage unfolding in front of him had to throw himself off and slide through a tiny gap to avoid being crushed by falling concrete.
The man, in his 50s, was seen lying under his bike and taken to hospital with broken ribs.
Meanwhile, another lorry that was passing under the devastated structure as it crashed down was sliced in two. Read More...
THE Shetland Isles were plunged into a comms blackout today after an under-sea cable was cut - knocking out phone and internet connection to the region. A major incident was declared after the serious outage left the remote North Sea islands cut off from the mainland. It is believed the damage was caused accidentally by a fishing trawler rather than by an act of aggression, according to a Ministry of Defence source. Read More...
THIS is the moment a match between two non-league football teams is abandoned after a hearse drives onto the pitch.
Gateshead FC were playing at Dunston UTS FC in a friendly when the two vehicles entered the pitch and began churning up the turf. Footage from inside the ground shows two mask-clad men performing donuts and drifting across the pitch while a number of posters are thrown from the windows. Read More...
